Today's News

Despite three county departments ending the fiscal year over budget, Lancaster County received another good rating during this year’s annual audit.
Sheila Morgan, a certified public accountant with McAbee Talbert Halliday & Co., presented the audit results at Lancaster County Council’s Dec. 13 meeting. Morgan issued the county an unqualified opinion, meaning it was in good financial shape.

HEATH SPRINGS – Prep work has begun on the long-awaited expansion project at the Heath Springs Fire Department station.
Fire Chief Patrick Helms gave Heath Springs Town Council members an update on the work Tuesday. The department will more than triple the size of its existing Duncan Street station – going from about 3,000 square feet to more than 10,000 square feet, Helms said.
The work is being paid for through a $976,000 federal American Recovery and Reinvestment Act grant that the fire department received last year.

INDIAN LAND – When Indian Land High School Principal Kathy Faris went looking for a program to help take her school to the next level academically, she settled on a collective theme.
Faris wanted an overarching theme that would tie together the school’s diverse curriculum across all disciplines and grade levels, and give students a deeper understanding of what they were learning.
There was a whole world of ideas out there – and, ultimately, it was literally the world that the school settled on.

The Lancaster County Parks and Recreation Commission youth soccer program has made a name for itself in all-star postseason play.
The LCPRC all-stars teams’ recent stellar effort in state tournament play did nothing to tarnish that shining image.
The county stars fielded teams in three age groups – 10 under, 12-under and 15-under.
Two of those three teams brought home state crowns after competing in the elite field at the Manchester Meadows Complex in Rock Hill.

A recent visit to a local restaurant in Lancaster found me waiting behind three wide bodies blocking the tea dispensers. Despite tilting the sweet tea canister 45 degrees they found none to be had, so they waited for it to be filled. It didn’t enter their minds to try unsweet tea just as it wouldn’t have entered mine several years ago.

ROCK HILL – The Northwestern Lady Trojans held on to top Indian Land 45-41 for the championship in the second annual Y.C. Winborn Memorial basketball tournament at Rock Hill High School on Tuesday night.